After deciding to use ARS at a meeting one of the most common questions we receive from clients is, "How many questions should I use in my presentation?" I wish that there was straight forward answer to give them, but in practice, the answer is not always simple. There is no magic number of questions to pose to you audience. I can, however, give them and you some things to cons...
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How To Use A Turning Technologies ResponseCard
So, you want to know how to use a ResponseCard RF with your TurningPoint audience response system. Do you have ten seconds? Because that is about how long it will learn everything you need to know about this easy to use wireless keypad.
How to use the keypad to vote
When an interactive question is displayed on the screen, simply press the button that corresponds to the numb...
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How To Use ARS Clickers Effectively
While the specifics of the audience response system being discussed in the video are slightly different from the system that we provide, the teaching and usage tips are right on target. The video discusses strategies to use ARS as part of collaborative learning and group discussion. It also suggests that you shouldn't use clickers as just a quiz, but rather as a tool for the pr...
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Free TurningPoint Training On Effective Use Of ARS and Best Practices
Turning Technologies will be offering a free training webinar on November 4th, 2010. Audience response thought leaders,Kevin Cope, Philip Bradley and Charles Jeter will be sharing their insights, lessons learned and personal experiences regarding the effective use of ARS at meetings and training sessions.
This data packed session will include the following topics:
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Safe Frequencies for Audience Response System Keypads
Turning Technologies ResponseCards RF and ResponseCards RF LCD are very robust systems can be used without fear of interference from devices that emit radio frequency interference and commercial wireless technologies, including wifi (WLAN 802.11 b,g and g), even though the technologies exist within the 2.4 GHz band. If you really want to play it safe, there are several channels...
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Using TurningPoint to Collect Demographic Information
One of the most powerful features of TurningPoint is its ability to quickly gather demographic data from your voting audience. Any question can be set as demographic either before polling data is collected or after the meeting has ended. Of course you’ll want to choose questions that will return meaningful information. Questions that determine gender, age, geographic region, co...
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How To Format Your Audience Response Questions To Look Great
Make your audience response questions visually appealing by matching them to your slide template. If you use TurningPoint, there isn’t much that you can’t customize on your question slides because the objects that it places on your slides are in fact PowerPoint objects. Follow these simple steps and your questions will look better in no time. I can't promise that you'll be crea...
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The Danger of Using Foil Labels on ResponseCard RF
While it might seem like a no-brainer when dealing with radio frequency technology, absolutely do not use metal/foil labels to identify your Turning Technologies ResponseCards or ResponseCard Receivers. The effective range of your system will be greatly reduced and you might not receive responses submitted.
Back in the early days RF audience response, circa 2006, I worked f...
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Overview of Adult Learning Processes
The fine folks at Medscape have posted an article outlining how adults learn and how their learning process differs from that of children. Check it out and use your imagination as to how you can incorporate their methods into the use of your audience response system.
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Using Countdown Timers To Keep Your Meeting On Schedule
One of the worst things that I can think of is a meeting that has trouble sticking to the agenda. With an audience response systems, now you can at least keep the polling on track by using countdown timers. I'm not sure that I can 100% explain it, but when time is ticking away on a screen, meeting attendees seem to just get the idea that now is not the time endlessly debate a p...
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